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Monday, August 11, 2014

Washington Threatens The World

Guest Post By Paul Craig
Roberts

The
consequence of Washington’s reckless and
irresponsible political and military interventions
in Iraq, Libya, and Syria has been to unleash evil.
The various sects that lived in peace under the rule
of Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, and Assad are butchering
one another, and a new group, ISIS, is in the
process of creating a new state out of parts of Iraq
and Syria. The turmoil
brought into the Middle East by the Bush and Obama
regimes has meant death and displacement for
millions and untold future deaths. As I write 40,000
Iraqis are stranded on a mountain top without water
awaiting death at the hands of ISIS, a creation of
US meddling.

The reality
in the Middle East stands in vast contradiction to
the stage managed landing of George W. Bush on the
US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln where Bush
declared “Mission Accomplished” on May 1, 2003. The
mission that Washington accomplished was to wreck
the Middle East and the lives of millions of people
and to destroy America’s reputation in the process.
Thanks to the demonic neoconservative Bush regime,
today America is regarded by the rest of the world
as the greatest threat to world peace.The Clinton
regime’s attack on Serbia set the pattern. Bush
upped the ante with Washington’s naked aggression
against Afghanistan, which Washington clothed in
Orwellian language–”Operation Enduring Freedom.”

Washington
brought ruin, not freedom, to Afghanistan. After 13
years of blowing up the country, Washington is now
withdrawing, the “superpower” having been defeated
by a few thousand lightly armed Taliban, but leaving
a wasteland behind for which Washington will accept
no responsibility. Another
source of endless Middle East turmoil is Israel
whose theft of Palestine is
Washington-enabled. In the middle of Israel’s latest
attack on civilians in Gaza, the US Congress passed
resolutions in support of Israel’s war crimes and
voted hundreds of millions of dollars to pay for
Israel’s ammunition. Here we witness Great Moral
America 100 percent in support of unambiguous war
crimes against essentially defenseless people.

When Israel
murders women and children, Washington calls it
“Israel’s right to defend their own country”–a
country that Israel stole from Palestinians–but when
Palestinians retaliate Washington calls it
“terrorism.” By supporting Israel, declared to be a
terrorist state by a few moral governments that
still exist, and accused of war crimes by the UN
General Secretary, Washington is in violation of its
own laws against supporting terrorist states.

Of course,
Washington itself is the leading terrorist state.
Therefore, it is illegal under US law for Washington
to support itself. Washington, however, does not
accept law, neither domestic nor international, as a
constraint on its actions. Washington is
“exceptional, indispensable.” No one else counts. No
law, no Constitution, and no humane consideration
has authority to constrain Washington’s will. In its
claims Washington surpasses those of the Third
Reich.

The only
country on earth that needs war is Washington, and
that is because Washington’s goal is the
neoconservative one of exercising hegemony over the
world.

Prior to
the Bush and Obama regimes, every previous US
president went to great efforts to avoid
telegraphing any nuclear threat. US war doctrine was
careful to keep nuclear weapons limited to
retaliation in the event the US suffered a nuclear
attack. The purpose of nuclear forces was to prevent
the use of such weapons. The reckless George W. Bush
regime elevated nuclear weapons to preemptive first
use, thus destroying the constraint placed on the
use of nuclear weapons.

The
overriding purpose of the Reagan administration was
to end the cold war and, thereby, the threat of
nuclear war. The George W. Bush regime, together
with the Obama regime’s demonization of Russia, have
overturned President Reagan’s unique achievement and
made nuclear war likely.When the
incompetent Obama regime decided to overthrow the
democratically elected government in Ukraine and
install a puppet government of Washington’s
choosing, the Obama State Department, run by
neoconservative ideologues, forgot that the eastern
and southern portions of Ukraine consist of former
Russian provinces that were attached to the Ukraine
Soviet Socialist Republic by Communist Party leaders
when Ukraine and Russia were part of the same
country–the Soviet Union. When the Russophobic
stooges that Washington installed in Kiev
demonstrated in word and deed their hostility to
Ukraine’s Russian population, the former Russian
provinces declared their desire to return to mother
Russia. This is not surprising, nor is it something
that can be blamed on Russia.

Crimea
succeeded in returning to Russia, where Crimea
resided since the 1700s, but Putin, hoping to defuse
the propaganda war that Washington was mounting
against him did not accept the pleas from the other
former Russian provinces. Consequently, Washington’s
stooges in Kiev felt free to attack the protesting
provinces and have been following the Israeli policy
of attacking civilian populations, civilian
residences, and civilian infrastructure.

The
presstitute Western media ignored the facts and
accused Russia of invading and annexing parts of
Ukraine. This lie is comparable to the lies that US
Secretary of State Colin Powell told the UN about
Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in behalf of the
criminal Bush regime, lies that Colin Powell later
apologized for to no avail as Iraq had been
destroyed by his lies.

When the
Malaysian airliner was destroyed, before any facts
were known Russia was blamed. The British media was
especially primed to blame Russia almost the instant
it was known the airliner was downed. I heard the
BBC’s gross misrepresentation and blatant lies on
American National Public Radio, and only the Daily
Mail’s propagandistic account was worse. The entire
“news” event has the appearance of orchestration
prior to the event, which, of course, suggests that
Washington was behind it.

The
airliner deaths became all important for
Washington’s propaganda war. The 290 casualties are
unfortunate, but they are a small fraction of the
deaths that Israel was inflicting on Palestinians at
the same moment without provoking any protests from
Western governments, as distinct from Western
peoples in the streets, people whose protests were
conveniently suppressed for Israel by Western
security forces.Washington
used the downing of the airliner, which probably was
Washington’s responsibility, as an excuse for
another round of sanctions and to pressure its
European puppets to join the sanctions with
sanctions of their own, which Washington’s EU
puppets did.

Washington
relies on accusations and insinuations and refuses
to release the evidence from the satellite photos,
because the photos do not support Washington’s lies.
Facts
are not permitted to interfere with Washington’s
demonization of Russia any more than facts
interfered with Washington’s demonization of Iraq,
Libya, Syria, and Iran.

Twenty-two
reckless and irresponsible US senators have
introduced the “Russian Aggression Prevention Act of
2014,” US Senate bill 2277, sponsored by Senator Bob
Corker, who well represents in his ignorance and
stupidity what appears to be the majority of the
American population or the majority of voters in the
state of Tennessee. Corker’s bill is a mindless
piece of legislation designed to start a war that
would be likely to leave no survivors. Apparently,
idiotic Americans will elect any fool to power.

The belief
that Russia is responsible for the downed Malaysian
airliner has become fact in Western capitals despite
the total absence of even a tiny scrap of evidence
in behalf of the claim. Moreover, even it the
accusation were true, is one airliner worth a World
War?

The UK
Defense Committee has concluded that a broke and
militarily impotent UK must “focus on the defense of
Europe against Russia.” The military spending drums,
if not the war drums, are beating and the entire
West has joined in. A militarily impotent Britain is
going to defend Europe from a non-existent, although
much proclaimed, attack from the Russian bear.

US and NATO
military dignitaries and the Pentagon chief are
issuing Russia Threat Warnings based on alleged but
non-existent Russian troop-buildups on Ukraine’s
border. According to the the Western Ministry of
Propaganda if Russia defends the Russian populations
in Ukraine from military attack from Washington’s
stooge government in Kiev, it is proof that Russia
is the villain.

Washington’s propaganda campaign has succeeded in
turning Russia into a threat. Polls show that 69
percent of Americans now regard Russia as a threat,
and that the confidence of Russians in American
leadership has vanished.

Russians
and their government observe the identical
demonization of their country and their leader as
they observed of Iraq and Saddam Hussein, of Libya
and Gaddafi, of Syria and Assad, and of Afghanistan
and the Taliban just prior to military assaults on
these countries by the West. For a Russian, the
safest conclusion from the evidence is that
Washington intends war on Russia.

It is my
opinion that the irresponsibility and recklessness
of the Obama regime is without precedent. Never
before has the United States government or the
government of any nuclear power gone to such great
efforts to convince another nuclear power that that
power was being set up for attack. It is difficult
to imagine a more provocative act that more
endangers life on earth. Indeed, the White House
Fool has doubled up, convincing both Russia and
China that Washington is planning a preemptive first
strike on both.Republicans
want to sue or to impeach Obama over relatively
inconsequential issues, such as ObamaCare. Why don’t
Republicans want to impeach Obama over such a
critical issue as subjecting the world to the risk
of nuclear armageddon?

The answer
is that the Republicans are as crazed as the
Democrats. Their leaders, such as John McCain and
Lindsay Graham, are determined that “we stand up to
the Russians!” Wherever one looks in American
politics one sees crazed people, psychopaths and
sociopaths who should not be in political office.
Washington
long ago gave up diplomacy. Washington relies on
force and intimidation. The US government is utterly
devoid of judgment. This is why polls show that the
rest of the world regards the US government as the
greatest threat to world peace.

Today(August 8, 2014) Handelsblatt, Germany’s Wall Street
Journal, wrote in a signed editorial by the
publisher:

“The
American tendency to move from verbal escalation to
military escalation–the isolation, demonization, and
attacking of enemies–has not proven effective. The
last successful major military action the US
conducted was the Normandy landing [in 1944].
Everything else – Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and
Afghanistan – was a clear failure. Moving NATO units
towards the Polish border with Russia and thinking
about arming Ukraine is a continuation of relying on
military means in the absence of diplomacy.”
Washington’s puppet states–all of Europe, Japan,
Canada, and Australia–enable Washington’s unrivaled
danger to the world by their support of Washington’s
agenda of exercising hegemony over the entire world.
The 100th
anniversary of World War I is upon us. And the folly
that caused this war is being repeated. WWI
destroyed a civilized Western world, and it was the
work of a mere handful of scheming people. The
result was Lenin, the Soviet Union, Hitler, the rise
of American Imperialism, Korea, Vietnam, the
military interventions that created ISIS, and now
resurrected conflict between Washington and Russia
that President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev had
ended.

As Stephen
Starr has pointed out on my website, if merely 10%
of the nuclear weapons in the US and Russian
arsenals are used, life on earth terminates. Dear
readers, ask yourselves, when has Washington told
you anything that was not a lie? Washington’s lies
have caused millions of casualties. Do you want to
be a casualty of Washington’s lies?

Do you
believe that Washington’s lies and propaganda about
the Malaysian airliner and Ukraine are worth risking
life on earth? Who is so gullible that he cannot
recognize that Washington’s lies about Ukraine are
like Washington’s lies about Hussein’s weapons of
mass destruction, Iranian nukes, and Assad’s use of
chemical weapons?

Do you
think that the neoconservative influence that
prevails in Washington, regardless of the political
party in office, is too dangerous to be tolerated?